but in their institutional. managers of the corporation there is a task. that task is to maximize profit and market share. if they don't do that they're out and somebody else is in. the indian government meanwhile declare itself the sole representative of the victims and proceed to sort out the case for four hundred seventy million dollars which was sort of cheap the union carbide start went up by two dollars a share set of numbers and if you could not mean that it could be such a grueling sell out because the new government agreed to set all present and future liabilities for a sum as small as four hundred seventy million dollars. people received as little as five hundred dollars but lifelong injuries. unpunished.

i believe whatever happened in the past we cannot change it but what is happening now is in our control it's been twenty seven years and the government should least do something like people should get clean water because the ground water is contaminated whoever survived that night and whatever life is left for the gas victims they should get proper treatment so they can spend the rest of their lives in good health. they are gas and water victim children grow up born with deformities and their future has to be kept in mind so that these kids can live a proper life and so that their parents do not take them as some sort of burden. often. good afternoon c.h.r.y. this is on me. and i'm joined on the line by sanjay very much who is an actor. this

in the bhopal campaign and also a survivor of the terrible disaster in one thousand nine hundred eighty four so sanjay can you tell us a bit about what happened to you on the night of december third one thousand nine hundred four well i was born in july so i was a few months old that it happened to my mother and i asked. what happened to our parents and believe in a way i asked my sister because i had no one at the parents meeting at my school so she was like they all died that night and then she told. me so i so she was like the iranian of a i in my. blanket and i ran away so that's the reason we saw. sunday was innocent. and one time his sister was nine his elder brother so i mean he was only toadying and these were the only people left alive in

a family of. my family old runaways i was told later two of them died in hospital my. mother my mother and father. the largest resistance when you buy a lot of. data to a missile. they lost their parents. and three sisters and two brothers calling one night. my dad and. my family members die because of this fact. and the system in question has been there. but it is a godsend because they will allow a thousand people at but according to the people who are carrying out bodies from the g eight from the houses around seven thousand to ten thousand people have died

in the next seventy two hours and. twenty five thousand people have died. i remember my thought that all came up and organize it and. then automatically i myself got involved in the fight and i joined like other organizations i think i got it and. now we are while all of the young guys factory. they are playing they will all know how contaminated the factories how on going again the soil on the factories they are like security inside the factory muglia not paying attention bores them. while we did a study we just want to just extend those chemical contamination build a factory and i will die and see if there is

a link because there by building it is going to go for all going to school that's the site because if you got the site justified it is easy if you look at all the lead guy here mitt romney and mostly an up and. phone very high most of the day. and want to die one of the phone mostly as a year. in fact been invented offline i did this photo get out and you can still see it in the structure of the thing and they're close not surprising that the plant is very high on both them ok. we have received very important documents in this case that i think established very clearly that union carbide knew in advance as early as nine hundred seventy three that this pollution problem that we are facing today they knew this was going to happen and they and they went ahead with this project despite that specific knowledge as early as one nine hundred seventy three union carbide engineers or warning the company that the plant presents an

unusual challenge in that there's no nearby running body of water into which waste can be discharged so from the design stage waste disposal plant was that was a major concern. a lot of the waste streams from the plant emptied into the area of the plant known as the solar evaporation pond area. and this is where the waste in toxic sludge were dumped basically and carby we're standing right on top of it and the other side is you can see there used to be a small leak which you know and carbonate also used as a dumping ground for they waste people depended on the water from the link so they drank it and it cost and pedantic. union carbide knew from the design stage that the bhopal plant could pollute groundwater they also knew that there was a there was a surrounding community that used that groundwater for its drinking water supply.

so they believe that they can get rid of someone. by evil braiding it and then when they had like some kind of sludge so they took all of us from. here and there and you see this black lining. and the need the ground of this landfill they believe that this kind of lining if. it can keep the vast. lining and the need to go on every day i was here. we believe the solar evaporation ponds continues to be a source of the subsurface water pollution that's now reaching through the article for and spreading into the surrounding communities and can be detected as far away as three kilometers from the main plant campus so that evacuation was before the very height was gloomy you see it was using. only english ground

and one of these isolated that there isn't one situation on the fact. that is still being gone dominated and people are forced to did water because they do not have any other choice of way will remain a source of pollution for this area until it is remedial and the party that can do that is you know the symbol mark the twenty fifth anniversary of the tragedy at union carbide india ltd facility in bhopal and even today continues to evoke strong emotions globally and rightfully so we're saddened however that despite all that has been written about the tragedy in the past twenty five years so many misconceptions still exist about union carbide and it's wrong the government of india is the appropriate entity to address any i'm going to express by the people of bhopal. we are saddened by the fact that the site remains on remediated adding

to the tragedy that has occurred the site today is in the hands of the state government of my dear pradesh the state government. and together with the central government they are trying to get the site cleaned up union carbide is now a wholly owned subsidiary of dow chemical dow chemical. two thousand and one on august third the board. carbide approved the burger agreement create the world's second largest chemical. does complicate things and doesn't because the law on contamination is very clear in india and in the us and which is the principle the polluter pays principle is the idea under international law that the liability for pollution should always be traced back to the polluter the polluter should not be able to externalize the costs of pollution onto society at large or a third party it shouldn't be the government's responsibility to clean up at public

expense after private polluters. so a no no no no no that is one of the many people. drinking contaminated water you see this is like one of the. logs in the neighborhood and then we've got a lot of this bomb tested every founded highly contaminated but they do not have any other choice and they are drinking this water. it was like some time two thousand and four it was sometime in the evening. when i eased back to my home there was a letter written by my brother that. i'm going to die in a few men so take care of yourselves and he was like he was laying on his back in this room so i had to phone one of my one of my brother's friends and they said. both of us took my brother to the hospital and finally.

before that he had run into a jungle where food he had tried to set him off fire. he didn't have any physical problems his sickness was that of paranoia and fear. if anyone came over to the bench i would go and hide in the bathroom he used to say he could hear a voice in his mind. well . science technology innovation all the developments from around rush hour we've got the future covered.

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cultures of resistance on our team. one. used today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day. i believe that a war inhales with time but in both cases it's getting worse. if we blame each other for everything when no solution will come. from a government blames the company we blame the government the government suffers the company suffers and most importantly the people who suffer it will i'm going to

remember actually who was the media person who asked me this question who do you blame to work surely according to you. and before i answer to his question he said you are god man but he said to me your government like ditching you they have been the people from. so if your government is not willing to help you then work. for you. on that particular night i'm not particular night on the second and third december some gases from the union carbide leaked and some of the people died now being an autopsy surgeon it was my moral duty to find out what the cause of death was. after analysis it was established that cyanide was present to get along with nearly twenty nine components are to which it team were deadly. like in hiroshima and nagasaki it had an adverse effect on their genes so similarly this

adverse effect of the gases causing genetic mutation in india. would like that we don't speak about because he's not a good image of all india in america they don't want to talk about because in spite of the fact that there is a wall of and fall the rest against mr wall man and i mr anderson has retired in a beautiful house in long new york and of course never. it was a bone of glacier we're looking at we're going to be inventive and one of the implications is for a nation which you know then more than thirty thousand people are affected and the people who are drinking the polluted water have known about the problems this can problems that is this is through the. infections industrialization of the. foreign investment. all of those are sick and that's the position that having to

get specific governments are not in business to protect the population. that's what they say they are but it's usually a pretty low priority. don't take any worry that somebody stored in. a record country and stored it pretty often loses. often the loss of the work crew population but the leaders were willing to take the risk or there was some. least want to respond is in this stock clearly the government just pimping for dow chemicals and these are the same people who have so far stalled justice for the victims. but we strongly feel that on this occasion of the twenty seventh

anniversary we will be able to store the mixes and we will get justice. they have not been a profit on the other one. of the people this is a different it's different. this is not. really have. to get justice. what does it mean that. business could make its life i was hired to do. for you. to bring all of the computer applications on the same. corporation works because they are more concerned about bottom line profit then anything i just decided that i was making a profit for just the wrong people i made the decision to purchase union carbide knowing that these liabilities were outstanding so when you purchase the assets of

a company purchased those liabilities. we are just asking for our right to clean water union carbide is fully exploited the sort of international dimension of this problem it informs the american courts that new york law. because these events took place in india at the same time this doesn't apply so in effect they're arguing that they're above them. appropriate behavior for. of course international law has no enforcement laws of force for somebody who's going first if the united states doesn't force a. little but they should take responsibility for. dime from the water no one is offering clean water they have no choice. dow chemical go to how it's going to how do how. agents of dow should be

spanked. if you look at subject to the jurisdiction of india then you have to submit to the american boards and the american courts have to do something about. this in two thousand and four the supreme court's directed the government to provide clean and safe water but the government the state from central has failed to honor the supreme court order. then the problem is that by november two thousand and nine the government would supply clean water but that's a promise was never fulfilled but some pipelines were laid in some areas but not in every area the water there supplying these pipes is duty and not fit for drinking water becomes from kids and dad being made to petition the mission control board certified against any high concentrations of coal like you said knowingly this water is what is being supplied to locals who have given their lives.

the. company should realize that it cannot break this country's. budget if we win this fight outsiders will gain nothing again will be for years the people of palm. coast what we have asked for is the clean up cost union carbide should clean all the poisonous and powerful toxic chemicals that are stored inside the plant. the groundwater which is polluted in a radius of three kilometers around the plant should be cleaned and union carbide should be paid for about to. bring anderson to india bring them

here dow chemical leave india leave india on top of that we have asked for compensation for the victims who are suffering. it's our mission to fight for people who are weak people who cannot fight for themselves or even know how. union carbide should bear these expenses because in the coming ten to fifteen years people will keep getting affected due to the growing contamination and will be more prone to cancers like diseases and you bloody old body of it we are fighting for our society we are fighting for our country we are fighting for gas victims. it's only by virtue of the fact that this afternoon if it indeed. able to exist. that's coming out of this year a fresh known bailable warrant has been issued for foreign anderson. and if the

government fails to wake up and help then we are committed to fight the next twenty seven years against the nexus between the company and the government the process could change dramatically if the indian government intervene the states have said it's not going to somebody in the building i mean really i'm not and they don't have the authority to someone to give it to the government what they have. said to the government if they want this ruling. and if you're right that it was for that there's all this. they were all the survivors in cold blood they are supported they have submitted a letter although that's all it will all lead your eye. on any ideas from our research one thing is very clear the union carbide india factory is infected with poison feeling it is a poison which will not lead to death just by touching it so i can understand why

their money pradesh government is saying there is no poison. but it is also true that it's a kind of poison that is leaking into our environment that is the main thing i am saying is that the factory should be cleaned as soon as possible. god has given you this word with all the facilities that god has given everything here why destroyed. felt come on friends join the march with the victims and show that your passion has not cooled down. i. has not slowed down because we did not get justice and unless we get justice a passion will never cleaned out. every year millions of people are dying because of this unburdened the pursuit of profit. and what can fit in will fall a saying is that you cannot do it in far not allowed to do it because life is

sacred and that cannot be violated and. i think that it is my hour the twang day or the strength from the rest of the world who will get justice from dull company that i. did one hundred fifth anniversary is just to learn my the four years of the verse read the first of the diverse read will be as important for the final go. not goal is to clean the factory farm all those toxic effluents which still pull you the water that the people have to drink. the amazon i want the world to understand the crime of these companies they profit from the analysts products as they show on t.v. and not in the same products boys in our lives. we should never allow down to continue their poisonous business in any other city

in the world so that another book pal who will not be repeated by e.j. worsley gives us more spirit gives us more encouragement people i'll know what i have been for and we get more support every year than the previous year if there is justice and this world would be safer for all of us to live in because it would set a precedent a parent company cannot set up a subsidiary somewhere in the world create a large scale environmental problem and then when the time comes to fix liability sell off its local subsidiary and then retreat to the united states or any other developed country and a basically say that nobody can sue them here nobody can hold them accountable so that's the sort of context in which if our litigation were to be successful it would set important precedent.

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